Every time I think I'm getting half-decent at recreational-level C programming I do something dumb that knocks me down a few pegs. In my last post I mentioned using malloc() and free() to run some very simple tests. The tests turned out fine but I ran into an error that took me a few minutes to resolve.
This illustrates what I tried to do, and what I actually meant to do:
Basically I tried to alter where ptr was pointing, instead of filling in the reserved space ptr pointed to. The error happened when I tried to free the location of x instead of my malloc() allocated location.
I consider myself pointer-competent but I still make really dumb errors. The difference between now and a year ago is that I'd have had to write a post about how I was stuck on an error I couldn't figure out!
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